Ancient Greece Test Review

ANCIENT GREECE TEST REVIEW

DIRECTIONS: Answer the following questions completely. Once finished use this review to study for your test. Please remember to bring this with you on test day. It is to be turned in for a grade.

1.  Define Hellenistic.

2.  Name three Greek writers.

3.  Why is Herodotus important to history?

4.  Who tutored Alexander of Macedonia, opened a school called the Lyceum and wrote or edited over 200 books on topics ranging from astronomy to poetry and political science to weather?

5.  He tried to explain everything in mathematical terms and developed a mathematical theory that geometry students still use today (A squared + B squared = C squared).

6.  Who wrote Oedipus Rex?

7.  Who is Demosthenes and what did he do?

8.  Who is Thucydides?

9.  Who was the king of Macedonia before Alexander? What happened to him?

10.  Who was the sculptor of the statues in the Parthenon?

11.  Who is Socrates?

12.  Why is Hippocrates famous?

13.  Who was the leader of Athens during the Golden Age, and what were his three goals?

14.  Who is Aristotle?

15.  According to Plato, how can the real world be understood?

16.  Who is Plato?

17.  Who was the first scientific historian?

18.  After Alexander’s death, what happened to his empire?

19.  They claimed they were “knowers” who could find the answers to all questions.

20.  What is the military formation used by Alexander, and the Greeks called?

21.  How did the Hellenistic Culture spread?

22.  Who was victorious in the Peloponnesian War?

23.  Who was Archimedes?

24.  Name the three architectural columns used in the Greek city-states, and state the specific designs of each.

25.  What event in Athens took place following the Persian War?

26.  List, in order, the battles of the Persian War.

27.  Name and describe the different governments held by the Greek city-states?

28.  How did Solon improve the economic differences of Athens?

29.  How were Draco’s laws a reformation for Athens?

30.  List 10 Greek Gods or Goddesses, and what they are known for.

31.  What type of government did Athens have? What type of government did Sparta have?

32.  What caused the isolation of Greek city-states?

33.  Name the waterways that surround Greece.

34.  Greece’s location and terrain caused many Greeks to make a living as what?

35.  What did the Greeks have to do to fight overpopulation?

36.  Who could serve in Greek governments? (Who were considered citizens) and who were not.

37.  Why did Sparta develop into a militaristic city-state?

38.  Who fought in the Trojan War and why?

39.  Who was the first to excavate Troy?

40.  How does Hellenistic art and Classical Greek art from the Golden Age differ?